Historic Images

Photograph of Mr. Basil O’Connor, head of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (later the March of Dimes), reading Mrs. Hobby’s licensing message during the live telecast on the development of the poliomyelitis vaccine. The woman in the center foreground holds up cue cards for Mr. O’Connor. The names of the manufacturers are printed on the cards in four-inch size lettering.

The photograph was taken on April 12, 1955, during the live telecast informing the American public that the field trial to test the inactivated polio vaccine was successful. The telecast was filmed at Rackham Hall at the University of Michigan. Eli Lilly & Co. funded the hour and a half long broadcast, narrated by Bob Emerick. It was watched by an estimated 54,000 doctors in special screenings in movie theaters and heard by millions of people around the world on the radio.

Dr. Jonas Salk (not pictured), developer of the poliomyelitis vaccine, received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939.

Photograph of Mrs. Helen R. Bayne seated at desk. Mrs. Bayne was the librarian for the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College Library from 1929 to 1955. From 1955 to 1961 she served as the Curator, Archivist, and Research Librarian of the Medical Center of the New York University College of Medicine.

Head and shoulders photograph of Dr. Edward M. Bernecker, Administrator of University Hospital.

Photograph of the first injection of the Salk vaccine following NIH approval and licensing, during the live telecast on the development of the poliomyelitis vaccine. Dr. Jonas Salk is administering the injection to a young boy while Dr. Hart Edgar Van Riper, Medical Director of the National Foundation on Infantile Paralysis, observes.

The photograph was taken on April 12, 1955, during the live telecast informing the American public that the field trial to test the inactivated polio vaccine was successful. The telecast was filmed at Rackham Hall at the University of Michigan. Eli Lilly & Co. funded the hour and a half long broadcast, narrated by Bob Emerick. It was watched by an estimated 54,000 doctors in special screenings in movie theaters and heard by millions of people around the world on the radio.

Dr. Jonas Salk (not pictured), developer of the poliomyelitis vaccine, received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939.

Behind the scenes photograph of Wes Kenney briefing Dr. Jonas Salk, Mr. Basil O'Connor, Dr. V. F. Bazilauskas and Dr. David Bodian on their parts in the live telecast on the development of the poliomyelitis vaccine.

The photograph was taken on April 12, 1955, during the live telecast informing the American public that the field trial to test the inactivated polio vaccine was successful. The telecast was filmed at Rackham Hall at the University of Michigan. Eli Lilly & Co. funded the hour and a half long broadcast, narrated by Bob Emerick. It was watched by an estimated 54,000 doctors in special screenings in movie theaters and heard by millions of people around the world on the radio.

Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the poliomyelitis vaccine, received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939.

Photograph of Ernest Breed, Faculty, as it appears in the 1954 Violet, page 50.

Photograph of Dr. Hart Edgar Van Riper, Dr. Jonas Salk, and Dr. Thomas M. Rivers presenting during the live telecast on the development of the poliomyelitis vaccine.

The photograph was taken on April 12, 1955, during the live telecast informing the American public that the field trial to test the inactivated polio vaccine was successful. The telecast was filmed at Rackham Hall at the University of Michigan. Eli Lilly & Co. funded the hour and a half long broadcast, narrated by Bob Emerick. It was watched by an estimated 54,000 doctors in special screenings in movie theaters and heard by millions of people around the world on the radio.

Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the poliomyelitis vaccine, received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939.

Photograph of Mrs. Helen R. Bayne seated at desk. Mrs. Bayne was the librarian for the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College Library from 1929 to 1955. From 1955 to 1961 she served as the Curator, Archivist, and Research Librarian of the Medical Center of the New York University College of Medicine.

Head and shoulders photograph of Dr. Edward M. Bernecker, Administrator of University Hospital. (2 copies; 1 negative in poor condition)

Director Wes Kenney and narrator Bob Emerick introducing the live telecast on the development of the poliomyelitis vaccine.

The photograph was taken on April 12, 1955, during the live telecast informing the American public that the field trial to test the inactivated polio vaccine was successful. The telecast was filmed at Rackham Hall at the University of Michigan. Eli Lilly & Co. funded the hour and a half long broadcast, narrated by Bob Emerick. It was watched by an estimated 54,000 doctors in special screenings in movie theaters and heard by millions of people around the world on the radio.

Dr. Jonas Salk (not pictured), developer of the poliomyelitis vaccine, received his MD from New York University College of Medicine in 1939.